Rolling-screen bracket



May 29,- 1928.

' 1,671,545 J. REUTH ER RIOLLING SCREEN BRACKET Filed Au 2 1926 lnveni M, mm...

Patented May 29, 1928.

:roiznv REUTHER, or EAST AURQRA, NEW YORK. i

ROLLING-SCREEN BRAoK r.

Application filed August 2, 1926. SerialNo. iaaefa' This invent-ionrelates to a rolling windowscreen. V

Its object is toprovide simple and inexpensive means for automatically pressing the screen-roller against the window-frame,

upon unwinding the screen and pulling it down into place, to insure a tight o1n.tbe-- tween the rolled part of the screen and the frame. t y

r In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window-frame equipped with the improved screeinshowing the latter pulled down and secured at its lower end to cover-the window opening. Figure 2 Lean enlarged end View of the same, partly in section; Figure 3 is a similar View, sho'w ing the screen released at its lower end and partly wound upon the roller. 7 Figure a 1s a perspective View of one of the rollersupporting brackets and arms.

Simllar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout-the several.

views.

I 10 indicates the usualwindow-frame and 11 the flexible window-screen of wire cloth or other suitable material woundupon the spring-roller 12 which usually extends across the top of the window-frame, as shown, al-

' though it may be placed horizontally across its bottom or vertically at either side,

desired.

13,13 indicate upright guides of any appropriate construction secured to the face i of the window-frame along the edges of the window-opening for guiding the correspondmg edges of the rolhng screen.

Both of the roller-spindles 16' are pref-- I erably square or flat-sided. They are removably seated in upright notches or bearings the screen to hug the face of the window- 17 formed in the upper ends of swinging arms 18 pivoted at or near their lower ends to fixed brackets 19 proj ecting from the face of the window-frame. These arms are free to swing toward and from the-frame and their pivots 2O are arranged on the front or outer side of the plane of the roller-spindles, in the normal position of the roller as shown in Fig. 2. 'By this arrangement when the screen is pulled down and unwound from the roller. to cover the window-opening the arms 18 swing inwardly or 'rearwardly, as

shown in Fig. 2,'causing"the rolled part of to roll up, as shown in. Fig. 3. I

I frame and forming a tight jointat this point i d to effectually excludefiies andother. insects. 5-5 The roller maintains this close contactwith the window-frame so long as 'therlower end" of the screen is'held down in placeby any suitable fastening attached .to the windowsill, such as a cam-shaped hookQl pivoted to i to the sill and engaging an eye 22 secured to" a rail or blnding strip 23 at the'lower end I of the .screen. Upon unlocking the screen i from the sill and allowing it to roll upythe spring roller 12 and its arms' 18ftend to 1 stop-eXtension 18 located at the'loweren'd i i of the arm below its pivot and arranged to abut against the companion bracket 19, or;

equivalent part, thus limiting the outward swing of the arm when thescreen'is allowed I claim as my invention 1. A window fixture for a rolling screen,

' comprising a bracket secured-to a window 7 frame, and an uprightarm pivotedto said 5 bracket to swing towardand from the win dew-frame and having a spindlebe'aring in its free end," the pivot of said; arm being locatedcon the front side of the plane of said spindle-bearingin the normal position of the larm and the screen and the armbeing free 1 to swing toward the window-frame without 9 restraint topermit the rolling-screen to bear againstfthe window frame and a stop for I from the window-frame. 2. A window fixture for a rolling screen, comprising a bracket secured toa windowframe, and an upright arm pivoted to said bracket to swing t'oward and fromthe window-frame and having a spindle-bearing in its free end, thepivotof said arm being limiting the. movement of said arm away located on thefront' side of the plane of said spindleebearing in the normal position I i of the arm and the screen, said arm having a stop extension below'its pivot'arranged'to abutagainst said bracket.

. :JOHN-"REUTHEIRVV 

